Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:03:23 -0800


On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:54:00PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Sounds wonderful. Any downsides?

It's not implemented yet :)

Seriously, there are a few gotchas that need to be worked out
(serialization of hotplug events, ordering, and other races), and a few
security issues to be addressed. Oh, and we need to finish converting
all of the kernel's drivers to export their major/minor number through
sysfs to get this to work.

Just a few minor things left...

thanks,

greg k-h
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